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FBI Charges Dozens in Global Computer Virus Scam
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Posted on 09/30/2010 9:34:03 AM PDT by nuconvert
Authorities have charged more than 60 people worldwide in connection with a global cybercrime scheme that relied on Internet viruses to steal millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts, the FBI said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banks; computer; crime; cybercrime; internet; internetvirus
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posted on
09/30/2010 9:34:08 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
They spend 18 months in Club Fed, and go to Rio and spend the rest of their lives drinking Cristal. I’d hit that. It’s not like the US feds are honest. They just want their piece of the Action. Ask Holder about the NBP.
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posted on
09/30/2010 9:47:57 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(The Tea Party just gave the Republican senators an ice water enema.)
To: nuconvert
...thousands of personal computers in England were infected with the malicious Zeus Trojan. Using it, criminal gangs gained the personal logins to thousands of bank accounts, enabling them to transfer money to accounts under criminal control.Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data?
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posted on
09/30/2010 9:57:47 AM PDT
by
doc11355
To: doc11355
Any, when social engineering is involved.
To: doc11355
They all are vulnerable, IMO.
I still pay my bills with checks. Won’t do anything financial on the computer.
To: nuconvert
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posted on
09/30/2010 10:47:08 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: ridesthemiles
Same here. I don’t want to pay bills online because of the vunerability of the computer. It is as simple as that. Yet, I have a friend who looks down on me because I refuse to use computer to pay bills.
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posted on
09/30/2010 11:07:21 AM PDT
by
Buddygirl
To: doc11355
Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data? Nobody wants to say the obvious, obviously.
(It was CP/M, right?)
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posted on
09/30/2010 12:48:37 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
To: Vaduz; Slings and Arrows
There go Lyndon LaRouche’s fundraising plans for 2012.
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posted on
09/30/2010 1:03:10 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: Buddygirl
Doesn’t matter whether you engage in online transactions when your bank or credit card company’s data is compromised internally.
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posted on
09/30/2010 1:06:40 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: thulldud
(It was CP/M, right?) You're showing your age with that comment. ;)
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posted on
09/30/2010 6:18:42 PM PDT
by
Traveler59
(Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
To: doc11355
Any guesses about which computer operating system proved to be so vulnerable it permitted penetration and access to personal financial data? Duh, wuz it Linux? Dat wascally Ubuntu!
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posted on
10/01/2010 12:54:46 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Buddygirl
Enough banks or credit card companies get bitten this way (after all they can’t get any blood out of a turnip consumer) and they will field web sites that refuse to work under Windows.
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posted on
10/01/2010 12:56:46 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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